Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 69
tting work, as he could, from the publish-ers—the books for which, at this time and later, he made illustrations, the greater part ofthem insignificant or valueless in themselves, now fetch high prices, and are treasured bycollectors for the vignettes, and head-and-tail-pieces designed by Blake,… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 55 vation illuminated by high thoughts, by sacrifice and devotion such as even to read of givesus a foretaste of heaven. As a boy apprenticed to Basire his chief delight had been, when hisdays work was over, to seek his chamber, and there make drawings and illustrate…
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